S.T. Hornrif IJM155 (Wartime visitor)

Information courtesy of Jan Harteveld

Technical

Official Number: 108585
Yard Number: 28
Completed: 1898
Gross Tonnage: 182 (As built 168)
net Tonnage: 68 (As built 93)
Length: 109.0 ft
Breadth: 21.1 ft
Depth: 10.4 ft
Built: Cumming & Ellis, Inverkeithing
Engine: 300ihp T.3-cyl by MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland

History

23.3.1898: Launched by Cumming & Ellis, Inverkeithing (Yd.No.28) for Muirhead’s Trawlers Ltd, Edinburgh as MOUNT CENIS.
4.6.1898: Trials in Firth of Forth.
6.1898: Completed. James Muirhead appointed manager. Registered at Granton (GN52). O.N.108585 (4/1898).
25.1.1904: Company in liquidation.
14.3.1904: Disabled with machinery problem 25 miles E of May Island. Liverpool steam trawler JABOO (LL358) connected and delivered Granton.
3.5.1904: Sold Joseph Constant (Shipbrokers) Ltd, London and offered for re-sale.
1.1905: Sold to Newhaven Trawlers Ltd, Edinburgh (Edward Walker, Newhaven, manager).
25.1.1905: Registered at Granton as ALERT (GN52).
1909: Sold to Stoomtrawler-Visscherij Mij. “Holland I-IV”, IJmuiden (S. A. Bakker, manager). Granton registry closed. Registered at IJmuiden as OTOÑO (IJM155).
1910: Sold to N.V. Visscherij Mij. “Pesca”, IJmuiden (S. A. Bakker later P. Dijksen, manager).
1923: Sold to N.V. Nationale Stoomvisscherij, IJmuiden (I. S. Groen, manager). Registered at IJmuiden as ALBERT GROEN (IJM155).
1928: Sold to Stoomvisscherij Mij. “Die Scelvisch”, IJmuiden (G. de Rooy & L. S. J. Reijersberg, managers). Registered at IJmuiden as AVILA (IJM155).
1934: Sold to N.V. Nationale Stoomvisscherij, IJmuiden (Donald J. Groen, manager). Registered at IJmuiden as LEENTJE ELIZABETH (IJM155).
1938: Briefly registered at IJmuiden as PRINSES BEATRIX (IJM155). Reverted to LEENTJE ELIZABETH (IJM155) when name taken by PRINSES BEATRIX (IJM117).
1939: Sold to Stoomvisscherij Mij. “Hornrif”, IJmuiden (Donald J. Groen, manager). Registered at IJmuiden as HORNRIF (IJM155).
1940: Escaped to England and fishing from Fleetwood.
1945: Returned to Holland.
1954: Laid up.
5.3.1957: Sold for breaking up. IJmuiden registry closed.

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S.T. Hornrif IJM155
Picture courtesy of Jan Harteveld